A former lifer who spent 32 years in cramped cells in Italian prisons before being acquitted on appeal is to get 30,000 euros in damages from the Italian state, a Cagliari court ruled Thursday.
Beniamino Zuncheddu, a 59-year-old Sardinian ex-livestock farmer, was convicted of a triple murder in 1991 and acquitted and set free by the Rome Court of Appeal at the end of the review trial.
The new was reported by the L'Unione Sarda newspaper Thursday and confirmed to ANSA by Zuncheddu's lawyer, Mauro Trogu.
The lawyer is also waiting for the grounds for the sentence in order to ask for compensation for unfair detention.
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